Facebook is fun. It’s addictive. It’s designed to be addictive. The more Facebook can keep you on Facebook the more ads they are able to serve up to your account and your friend’s accounts. But Facebook is killing your productivity. Take a break from Facebook for the day and see how much more you get [...][Continue Reading...]

Here are my happiness books. I have marked in the margins, quoted on FB and LinkedIn. These are my go to books when I'm stuck or struggling. I hope they give you some courage and insight.[Continue Reading...]

What is necessary is an action plan AND a process for getting the work done. And a feedback loop for sharing the results with the team, allowing for reassessment and reassignment if the roles are not well suited for the team members.[Continue Reading...]

Before Freud, before Covert, before anyone you’ve ever heard of there was the iChing, the oriental book of changes. I don’t throw the hexagrams a lot, but in a occasional moment of seeking I will turn to the iChing to help me reflect on some moment in my life, some pause before the next great [...][Continue Reading...]

I know we’re all *on* social media. And we’re all tweeting and posting and promoting stuff all over the place. But do you have a plan? And I don’t mean an activity plan. I mean an EMPIRE plan? We spend so much of our day on social media, it’s a shame not to capture some [...][Continue Reading...]

How Do You Follow? I am a firehose of data. I’m part of that 1% of people who really chews up a high volume of information and spits it back out in various ways. If you have people like me in your network, you can use them to your advantage. We, the influencer-types can be [...][Continue Reading...]

LinkedIn Groups are no longer top-of-mind. Where do you get social about business?
I recently updated and shared a post on LinkedIn about how the Groups were a great way to socialize your content. But as I was looking back over my activity in the last 12 months, I noticed, LinkedIn Groups have dropped off my radar as a valuable social network.[Continue Reading...]

So have you read the young man’s piece on social media that’s burning up the net? Andrew Watts wrote a salient and insightful piece on his use, and his peer group’s use of social media. A Teenager’s View on Social Media – Andrew Watts (@thatswattsup) It’s a good read, and led me to install SnapChat and YikYak [...][Continue Reading...]

Regardless of your needs, a consultant can probably work within your budget, time requirements, and client-contact needs. I am flexible and happy in any of the three roles and even some hybrid roles. Again, we are in these projects together. The only way I'm successful is to deliver the project on-time and on-budget with a happy client on the other end. [Continue Reading...]

Happiness is all about perspective and outlook for the future. And during my 40-something years on the planet, I have come across some models of centering, contemplation, recovery and joy that I feel it would be helpful to share. I am not planning a program or any type of revelation, merely an inner dialogue and revelation about some of my greatest comforts and simplest observations and lessons.[Continue Reading...]

Find your simple capture system for when the ideas come in inconvenient times. Then make sure you can rekindle the spirit from your capture, and that you can catalogue them and find them later, when you're in need of inspiration.[Continue Reading...]